Quotes by Cambodian Authors

When every dream has turned to dust, and your highest hopes no longer soar.When places you once yearned to see, grow further away on distant shores.When every night you close your eyes, and long inside for something more.Remember this and only this, if nothing else you can recall—There was a life a girl once led, where you were loved the most of all.
Lang Leav
The scatterbrain,is a little like,the patter of rain.Neither here,nor there,but everywhere.
Lang Leav
I don't feel like I can change the world. I don't even try. I only want to change this small life that I see standing in front of me, which is suffering.
Somaly Mam
There was a feeling of inevitability when I met you. The sense that we would be together; that there would be a moment when you would look at me in a certain way, and we could cross the threshold from friendship into something so much more.We spoke once about lovers who kept finding each other, no matter how many times the world came between them. And I think I had to break your heart, and you had to break mine. How else could we know the worth of what we were given?I think you were always meant to know me a little better than anyone else. And our lives were fated to converge like some cosmic dance. I know there is terrible distance between us. But our bodies are made of celestial light, and we are hurtling through space and time, toward the most beautiful collision.
Lang Leav
...you cannot control the depth of a wound another inflicts upon you.
Lang Leav
I did not know that it was love until I knew.
Lang Leav
You can create something that is pure genius, but you have to get your timing right.
Lang Leav
You forsake all that you hold dear,for a dream that is not your own;you would rather live a liethan live your life alone
Lang Leav
I thought maybe we mourned not only for the dead but also for the living. We felt their absence before we knew for sure they were gone.
Vaddey Ratner
I said nothing. Deep inside of me, my voice screamed from a hole where I had buried it
Vaddey Ratner
We spoke on the phone for the first time that morning. My back against the chest of drawers, my knees tucked under my
Lang Leav
A story, I had learned, through my own constant knitting and reknitting of remembered words, can lead us back to ourselves, to our lost innocence, and in the shadow it casts over our present world, we begin to understand what we only intuited in our naivete-that while all else may vanish, love is our one eternity.
Vaddey Ratner
AcceptanceThere are things I missthat I shouldn't,and those I don'tthat I should.Sometimes we wantwhat we couldn't—sometimes we lovewho we could.
Lang Leav
Her heart is played like well worn stringsIn her eyes the sadness singsOf one who was destined of better things
Lang Leav
Shrinking in a corner,pressed into the wall;do they know I'm present,am I here at all?Is there a written rule book,that tells you how to be—all the right things to talk about—that everyone has but me?Slowly I am withering—a flowered deprived of sun;longing to belong to—somewhere or someone.
Lang Leav
Because sooner or later, all kinds of love - crazy love, wild love- fade into the same thing. The love becomes old and predictable -safe.
Lang Leav
It’s amazing what people create using their pain. Work that is touched by melancholy has its own unique beauty. Even the word ‘melancholy’ is pretty, the way it rolls on your tongue. I think sadness adds something to literature that is unique. It’s an ingredient like . . .” I thought for a moment. “Like salt. Salt has that power to completely transform a dish. I think sadness has that same transformative effect in literature.
Lang Leav
For me, that was the death of the word, or; because now, there is no other. It was the end of the word, and; for I love only you.
Lang Leav
Xs and OsLove is a gameof tic-tac-toe,constantly waiting,for the next x or o.
Lang Leav
Our emotions pull us in different directions. The stronger the emotion, the greater the pull. Feelings are not always practical, nor do they make any logical sense. That's just the way it goes.
Lang Leav
I don't think all writers are sad, she said.I think it's the other way around—all sad people write.
Lang Leav
I saw love in your smile and I recognized it for the first time in my life. But you had a plane to catch and I was already home.
Lang Leav
One day you will be nostalgic for today.
Lang Leav
A good book is a man's best friend. It never leaves you even in your darkest hour.
Sophany Thay
Death, like fiction, is brutal in its symmetry. Take this story and strip it down -all the way back- until you are left with two points. Two dots on a vast, blank canvas, separeted by a sea of white. Here, we have come to the first point, where the batj is drawn and the hand is reachinh for the razor blade. I will meet you at the next, by the axle of a screaming wheel, the revolution of a clock, the closing of an orbit.
Lang Leav
She was eight years old, with the body of a child, but her spirit was weighed down by an adult suffering.
Somaly Mam
In a sea of strangers,you've longed to know me.Your life spent sailingto my shores.
Lang Leav
Without a doubt,I must read,all the booksI've read about.See the artworkshung on hooks,that I have only,seen in books.
Lang Leav
You forsake all that you hold dear,for a dream that is not your own;you would rather live a liethan live your life aloneUniverse of Us and on thoughtcatalog
Lang Leav
RegretsTiming is irrelevant when two people are meant for each other. It's what I once believed.But we met during a time when I was such a mess, when I still had so much to figure out. How could I have known how crucial every word, every action was or how losing you would be something I would always regret?If only you could have met me now, how different it would be. How much I have changed. How I have grown. I learned so much from all the mistakes I made with you. I just wish I had made them with someone else.
Lang Leav
Great compassion makes a peaceful heart. A peaceful heart makes a peaceful person. A peaceful person makes a peaceful family. A peaceful family makes a peaceful community. A peaceful community makes a peaceful nation. A peaceful nation makes a peaceful world.
Maha Ghosananda
To keep you is no benefit, to destroy you is no loss.
Khmer Rouge
That night, we talked the way old friends do, with candor and ease.
Lang Leav
Before I fellin love with words,with setting skies and singing birds—it was you I fellin love with first.
Lang Leav
I loved you once and now I must spend my whole life explaining why.
Lang Leav
Your first love isn't the first person you give your heart to- it's the first one who beaks it.
Lang Leav
Shrinking in a corner,pressed into the wall;do they know I'm present,am I here at all?
Lang Leav
Love hides in all sorts of places, in the most sorrowful corner of your heart, in the darkest and most hopeless situation
Vaddey Ratner
Every letterthat she types;every keystrokethat she strikes-To spell your nameagain and again,is all she everwants to write.
Lang Leav
She lends her pen,to thoughts of him,that flow from it,in her solitary.For she is his poet,And he is her poetry.
Lang Leav
Saving YouThe darkness takes him over, the sickness pulls him in; his eyes—a blown out candle, I wish to go with him.Sometimes I see a flicker— a light that shone from them; I hold him to me tightly, before he's gone again.
Lang Leav
Some pieces will sing to your present, others may echo of your past, and the rest could whisper of your future.
Lang Leav
Audrey, if you had the choice, would you rather be his muse or be in his arms?" "I want to be both. I know it's the exception rather than the rule, but I can't hepl what I want.
Lang Leav
It happens like this. "One day you meet someone and for some inexplicable reason, you feel more connected to this stranger than anyone else--closer to them than your closest family. Perhaps this person carries within them an angel--one sent to you for some higher purpose; to teach you an important lesson or to keep you safe during a perilous time. What you must do is trust in them--even if they come hand in hand with pain or suffering--the reason for their presence will become clear in due time."Though here is a word of warning--you may grow to love this person but remember they are not yours to keep. Their purpose isn't to save you but to show you how to save yourself. And once this is fulfilled; the halo lifts and the angel leaves their body as the person exits your life. They will be a stranger to you once more.-------------------------------------------------It's so dark right now, I can't see any light around me. That's because the light is coming from you. You can't see it but everyone else can.
Lang Leav
The glass bottle does not know its own contents. It has no idea whether it is a vessel for the most delicious apple cider, a lovingly crafted wine, or a bitter poison.
Lang Leav
I am six years old and instead of celebrating with birthday cakes, I chew on a piece of charcoal.
Loung Ung
I strongly believe that love is the answer and that it can mend even the deepest unseen wounds. Love can heal, love can console, love can strengthen, and yes, love can make change.
Somaly Mam
Do you love me?" I ask.In your hesitation I found my answer.
Lang Leav
It was like being seen after a perpetual darkness, I replied. To be heard after a lifetime of silence.
Lang Leav
Neither here, nor there. But everywhere.
Lang Leav
AGE DIFFERENCEWhat if I told you that one day you will meet a girl who is unlike anyone else you've known. She will know all the right things to say, what makes you laugh, what turns you on, what drives you wild and best of all, you will do for her exactly what she does for you."When will I meet her?"Well let's put it this way, she doesn't even exist yet.
Lang Leav
Like time suspended, a wound unmended-- you and I. We had no ending, no said goodbye; For all my life, I'll wonder why.
Lang Leav
Knowing comes from learning, finding from seeking.
Vaddey Ratner
You were none, and now you're all; your worth will rise, the more I fall.
Lang Leav
You were you,and I was I;we were twobefore our time.I was yoursbefore I knew,and you have always been mine too.
Lang Leav
He deftly dealt his swiftest blow--I fell further than, I was meant to go.
Lang Leav
It was from a very young age that I fell in love with this wonderful artifact--the turn of the first page is almost like a sacred ritual to me. Whenever I walk into a library, it is never without some degree of reverence.
Lang Leav
What was it like to lose him?" Asked Sorrow. There was a long pause before I responded:It was like hearing every goodbye ever said tome—said all at once.
Lang Leav
Do you know what it is like,to lie in bed awake;with thoughts to hauntyou every night,of all your past mistakes.Knowing sleep will set it right - if you were not to wake.
Lang Leav
Humans. We are intelligent. We are destructive. We are complex creatures.
Sambath Meas